The Jewish Year - Book. Edited by the Rev. Isidore Harris. (Greenberg
and Co. 2s. 6d.)—This, the sixth yearly issue, covers the period from September 14th, 1901, to October 1st, 1902, or. to use the Hebrew numeration, 5662. (Science has made this reckon- ing of Armco Mundi somewhat obsolete by putting quite incalculable periods before the traditional date of the Creation.) The year, too, is somewhat anomalous. It is "a defective leap year of 13 months, 55 Sabbaths, and 393 days." All this, however, has its interesting side, while it is not allowed to cause any practical trouble, as the obstinate adherence of Islam to its peculiar year must certainly do. The volume contains a mass of information about Jewish matters. The British Empire is said to contain about a quarter of a million Jews; the total for the world is reckoned at 11,242,665. The ratio to the total population is highest in Morocco (30 per cent.), and lowest in Belgium (-06). Connaught, however, with its 800,000 inhabitants, has but four Jews. It is reckoned that in all the branches of naval and military service there are about 2,100.
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